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CAISE
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A Work Allocation Language with Soft Constraints
Today's business process orchestration languages such as WS-BPEL and BPML have high-level constructs for specifying flow of control and data, but facilities for allocating ta...
Christian Stefansen, Sriram K. Rajamani, Parameswa...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Cooperative negotiation for soft real-time distributed resource allocation
In this paper we present a cooperative negotiation protocol that solves a distributed resource allocation problem while conforming to soft real-time constraints in a dynamic envir...
Roger Mailler, Victor R. Lesser, Bryan Horling
ACMICEC
2006
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
A semantic web approach to handling soft constraints in virtual organisations
In this paper we present a proposal for representing soft constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) within the Semantic Web architecture. The proposal is motivated by the need for a...
Alun D. Preece, Stuart Chalmers, Craig McKenzie, J...
EVOW
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Application of the Grouping Genetic Algorithm to University Course Timetabling
University Course Timetabling-Problems (UCTPs) involve the allocation of resources (such as rooms and timeslots) to all the events of a university, satisfying a set of hard-constra...
Rhydian Lewis, Ben Paechter
CP
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Constraints of Difference and Equality: A Complete Taxonomic Characterisation
Abstract. Many combinatorial problems encountered in practice involve constraints that require that a set of variables take distinct or equal values. The AllDifferent constraint, i...
Emmanuel Hebrard, Dániel Marx, Barry O'Sull...